Trial in Linz

Seven months in prison for accomplice in love scam

The defendant burst into tears when the verdict was announced and she was given seven months in prison. The judge had to explain to her once again that it was only a conditional sentence. The Linz woman (30) had made her bank account available for bank transfers in a love scam.

The mother of three, who is currently training to become a nurse, was a so-called contributory offender. The Congolese woman from Linz had made her account available to online fraudsters in order to fleece a Tyrolean woman who had been fooled into believing a romantic story about a Swedish soldier in Somalia. The perpetrators are presumably in Africa. 

Tens of thousands of euros in damage
The woman from Linz, who already had two criminal convictions, had met the crooks online. One of them promised her financial support. She only had to give her account number to transfer money. She actually received one transfer of 15,000 euros and another of 7200 euros from a woman from Tyrol. She received 2400 euros as a reward, said the accused. When the fraudsters demanded 50,000 euros, the woman went to the Tyrolean police. The investigators then discovered the Linz "connection".